What is a City God?

In ancient times, there were moats and moats in the city station, and the generals and soldiers believed that the mountain had a mountain god, the river had a river, and the city also had a god sitting in the town, and they often cast simple houses by the river, and then worship the city god card, in order to pray for the gods to bless the city and prevent the water and soil from encroaching.

This kind of folk sacrificial activities developed into a temple culture from the Northern and Southern Dynasties to the Tang Dynasty, and the Taoists intended to preach in the south, so they compiled the city god into the new god of Taoism, and gave the identity of the real person in history, such as Jixin, Zhou Yu, Chen Youliang, Hai Rui, Fan Zeng, Xiao He, Huo Guang, Qin Yubo, Wen Tianxiang, Liu Zongyuan, Huang Xie...... But all famous and responsible historical celebrities in history may be canonized as City God!

For example, Xiao He, who has the merit of stabilizing the world, is the city god of Chang'an, and the city god of Songjiang Mansion is Qin Yubo, an official at the end of the Yuan Dynasty.

The city god of Shu is a local celebrity, mostly to Wuhou, Guan Sheng, Tang Huang, Yue Qingshan saw the ancient town city god, is a gray beard Monkey King, probably for the sake of kindness, specially made like a birthday star, monkey face, monkey mouth, long birthday star's head, white beard, look very funny.

The so-called apparition of the people of the ancient town refers to the fact that the city god temple will light up the lantern at night, and when you go in to see it, you can see that the statue of the god has disappeared, and the person sitting on the treasure platform is actually a living city god.

This situation has come several times, and the people in the vicinity believe that it is the city god who has appeared, and they have taken the sacrifices to worship, and by the way, they asked the city god for a favor.

This Chenghuang Ye is not good-looking, but the spirituality can be guaranteed, but whoever gives tribute, almost responds to requests, even if it is to ask Chenghuang Ye to give silver, you can receive a large bag of silver ingots in a few days, which family has a headache and brain fever, as long as you tell Chenghuang Ye the symptoms, eat the medicinal soup and herb pills it gives, and the medicine will be cured.

Countryside people worship God, how can there be sincere piety, nothing more than who is effective, just worship a few more to find some benefits, if it does not work, it will immediately be overthrown, and it will become a feudal superstition.

To put it mildly, incense burns all day long in the countryside, and where is the god worshipped, it is clearly their unfulfilled desire.

At the moment, no matter whether the city god is a human or a ghost, or pretending to be a ghost, as long as he can meet his requirements, the people don't care what the truth is.

In the face of such a lucrative profit, the tribute given by the people to the city god has also changed its taste, from grains, flowers, fruits, noodles and peaches, to bloody cattle, sheep, chickens and ducks, and even living abandoned babies.

The greater their desire, the more they want to give precious tributes, which in turn raise the appetite of the city god, and this cycle eventually leads to the city god asking them to worship fresh boys and girls, and even choose a concubine spouse for him, so that they can take care of him day and night.

In the end, the people had nothing to offer, so they could only send their wives and children to the city god to eat, drink, and even all the monkeys could climb on people's heads to make a fortune, which led to the scene of the ancient town.

One day, an old Taoist priest saw that the ancient town was full of blood, and knew that there was a demon at work, so he came to the City God Temple with a magic weapon.

The city god is sitting on the high platform, greedily sucking the brain, the temple is full of flowers and colorful silk, like a red and pink devil cave, he immediately decided, picked up the magic sword and stabbed towards the city god, after all, the old Taoist priest is profound, a set of swordsmanship down, the city god beat the official hat down, clothes tattered.

Only then did the people know that the so-called City God Lord was just a three-hundred-year-old macaque, whose hair was so old that it had faded, revealing red and pink skin, and looking at the crystal bright eyes, it was comparable to human wisdom, and even walked upright to imitate human voices.

After the old monkey was stabbed to death with a sword, the old Taoist priest explained the origin of this monkey!

The dynasty is about to fall, the world is in chaos, and many beasts and animals know that humanity is declining, so they often wear human skins or human clothes, and go down the mountain to confuse the people and stir up the rivers and lakes, so as to wait for the opportunity to devour people's hearts and speed up their cultivation.

This monkey was his monkey servant when he was cultivating in Qingcheng Mountain, and he saw the old macaque abandoned by the monkeys decades ago, and was chased by wild wolves, so he saved his life with kindness.

This monkey also knew about the kindness, so he cleaned up the courtyard for him in the cave mansion, collected herbs for him every day, and cleaned the cave mansion, so he let the old monkey stay.

The old monkey originally had more than two hundred years of life, these decades in his cave self-cultivation, the old and the spiritual, while he went out to travel and escape down the mountain, relying on the ability on the mountain to swagger and deceive in the troubled times, I didn't expect to meet here today, since it was all because of his own big mistake, simply for the heavens, demons and demons.

This old monkey died like this under the old sword!

After the death of the old monkey, there is still a lot of affection.

Those village women who have served the old monkeys, after a year gave birth to children one after another, both men and women, in addition to the human face, all of them are sharp-beaked monkeys with peach hair on their cheeks, both monkeys roar and can speak human language, these villagers are afraid of causing trouble, so they all send these children to Qingcheng Mountain, and ask the old mother monkeys to pick up and feed, and after more than ten years, it is another disaster.

This incident became a strange rumor in the neighborhood for a while, and the countryside people called it a monkey disaster!

Even though the old monkey was hateful, his monkey oil did work.

The monkey oil in the bottle is not a cure, as long as it is not an incurable disease, drinking the monkey oil will be almost good, even if it is dying, you can strive for a few more days to return to the light, if you take your nose to smell it, you can even see what you think.